An Industrial Revolutionin a World of Magick

Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarfs, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of ancient runes and steamworks, of magick and machines, of sorcery and science. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.

Character Design allows you to customize your own character any way you choose

Whether you choose magick or technology, the Arcanum world adapts and responds to your character’s development

Classless, point-based attribute system allows for limitless creativity in guiding your character’s development

8 basic stats, such as Strength and Charisma

More than a dozen derived stats, from Poison Resistance to Character Speed

16 primary skills, including Gambling and Healing

80 spells with 16 Colleges of Magic

56 technological degrees within 8 disciplines

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE FEATURES

Explore a world as vast as it is mysterious – it would take over 30 real-time hours to traverse the land of Arcanum.

Meet more than 300 unique characters and monster types across this huge land.

Many means exist to solve the myriad quests, from dueling to discourse to thievery.

Take on a band of ogres in real time, or plan your strategy through turn-based combat – you decide.

Accurate day and night cycles affect the game play, from combat to thieving skills.

Winner of Computer Games MagazineÂ’s "Best Role-Playing Game" award, ArcanumÂ’ is an imaginative world of ancient runes and steamworks, magic and machines, sorcery and science.

What gentleman of noble upbringing can resist the marvels of adventure in the land of ArcanumÂ’! From the smog-enshrouded glow of its modern cities to the murky mines of the dwarves, both enchantment and mechanical marvels will bewitch and bewilder you.

Beautifully detailed environments are captured in this compelling new world where Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and other races battle to coexist in new sprawling industrialized cities. Witness firsthand the throes of ArcanumÂ’Â’s conflict between its magical past and its industrial future in this unique role-playing game.

Arcanum takes place in a world where technology and magic coexist in an uneasy balance. The mechanical age has only recently arrived in this ancient land where Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and other races have learned to coexist in the new sprawling industrialised cities. But this radical shift from magic to technology has created a potentially explosive situation. As the townspeople and other thinkers begin mass production of light bulbs, batteries, eyeglasses and guns the Mages grow leery. This tightly wound setting is the starting point from which the character must set out on his quests. Arcanum gives players the most freedom they have ever had in experiencing fantasy role-playing on the computer.